. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE struction of the bow window resemble a house in the High Street at Godalming, and the building probably dates from soon after 1577, when the property changed hands. The front at Great Tangley (Fig. 14) has similar but richer detail to the windows, and the regular circular quarterings, and is dated 1582. This is the ornament chiefly found in Surrey ; it is simple and does not require any skill in design, and was therefore suitable to the very moderate houses that remain. Lythe Hill, Haslemere, Burningfold, a
. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE struction of the bow window resemble a house in the High Street at Godalming, and the building probably dates from soon after 1577, when the property changed hands. The front at Great Tangley (Fig. 14) has similar but richer detail to the windows, and the regular circular quarterings, and is dated 1582. This is the ornament chiefly found in Surrey ; it is simple and does not require any skill in design, and was therefore suitable to the very moderate houses that remain. Lythe Hill, Haslemere, Burningfold, a house at Gomshall, a house lately uncovered at Godalming, and part of a house in a courtyard at Bramley, are the other principal examples that remain visible. Sometimes the panels are filled in with brickwork laid in herring- bone fashion, and occasionally the bricks are set in a basket pattern. Bricks for filling in the narrow spaces between close-set timbers seem to have been purposely made, and were set in alternate rakes, giving a herring - bone effect. The corner brackets carved from the butt of a tree turned upside down are of humble character in Surrey, and so are the brackets used elsewhere (Fig. 15). Cusped and traceried bargeboards survive, but they are not of the elaborate character found on the Kentish border. After 1550 there came so great a demand for work- men that it is not surprising that the new fashion of moulded bargeboards quickly supplanted the traceried patterns. The ends of projecting joists were shown in the earlier houses, but covered with a moulded beam later, when the joists were of smaller scantling. The jambs, heads and sills of original windows are worked on the solid frame ; the detail of that at Unsted was apparently a stock pattern, and is found in neighbouring counties. Upper windows were com- monly corbelled out even in cottages, partly perhaps for the sake of the wide window board. At Farnham is an interesting window of this sort of much ric
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